Eating Europe Food Tours
Richard van Herk has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Richard started their career as a General Manager at Odeon Amsterdam in 2009 before taking a sabbatical in 2010. In 2011, they briefly worked at Business Meets Sports, where they set up the business. From 2011 to 2017, van Herk held the position of Manager Sales and Events at Stromma Netherlands (previously Canal Company). In 2016, they also served as the Manager Sales at A'DAM LOOKOUT, which is part of Stromma Netherlands. Richard then joined Stromma Group in 2017 as an International Sales Manager Key Accounts, where they gained over 14 years of experience in the service-oriented industry. From 2019 to 2022, they worked at Stromma Netherlands as the Commercial Manager and Manager Business Development and Partnerships. In 2022, van Herk became the Business Owner at Voeten in het Zand and took on the roles of a.i. Commercial Director at Eating Europe Food Tours and a.i. Event Manager at Fovea IP. Throughout their career, they have shown strong leadership skills, excellent sales capabilities, and a passion for motivating and inspiring teams.
Richard van Herk completed a postacademic certificate in Sales & Account Leadership at ISAM Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2014. Prior to that, they attended Hogeschool TIO to study Hotel en Hospitality Management and Middelbare Hotel School, but no specific degree or field of study was mentioned for these institutions.
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Eating Europe Food Tours
Eating Europe is one of the largest and longest standing culinary tour operators in Europe operating since 2011. We operate in 10 of the most desired destinations in Europe where we create unique, immersive culinary experiences that many of our guests consider one of the highlights of their European holiday. Eating Europe creates small group food tours and culinary experiences like cooking classes, wine tastings, truffle hunts, craft beer tours and more. We also design and operate bespoke culinary experiences for many of the largest travel brands in the industry - our partners include Seabourn, Disney, Uniworld, Avalon Waterways, Tauck, and Globus among many others. In addition we create tailor made corporate events and team building activities for companies like Google, Lufthansa, Culinary Institute of America, and Microsoft. Since our inception in 2011 we are proud to have welcomed over 300.000 guests and have over 10k positive reviews on Tripadvisor. In addition our tours have been featured in the NY Times, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC, DW, Chicago Tribune and many others.